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A new Czech film Alois Nebel directed by Tomáš Luňák (1974), and shot digitally (in 35 days) and then animated (for 22 months by 40 animators) using interpolated rotoscope, (creating similar effects as in A Scanner Darkly, a 2006 film directed by Richard Linklater, based on a PKD novel and starring Keanu Reaves and Winona Ryder) had a premiere in Jeseník. See the top photo with most of the creative team presented on a red carpet.
It took five years to translate the original comics novel by Jaroslav Rudiš and Vladimír 99 into this film. The first screenings at Venice and Montreal Film Festivals brought amazing and most favourable reactions. Czech Film Academy nominated Alois Nebel for the (US) Academy Awards as a foreign film. And who knows, the story of an old railway station master can even win the Oscar. Read the review by Kirk Honeycutt in The Hollywood Reporter here.



Postscript: Friday, 14 October 2011. According to a recent info in The Wrap, Alois Nebel could be added as the 5th nominated film in the animated-feature category. Read more here.